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Ashley Board is in her first season as an assistant coach for
the Paladin volleyball team. Board comes to Furman from the
University of North Carolina, where she served as an undergraduate
assistant coach with the Tar Heels last year while completing her
degree. Board was a standout four-year letterman and defensive
specialist at UNC who finished her career with over 800 digs and 50
service aces. She was named North Carolina's Rookie of the Year in
2004 and later served as team captain both her junior and senior
seasons. She ranked second on the Tar Heel team in both digs (331)
and service aces (30) as a junior, and ranked second in service
aces (22) and third in digs (281) during her senior season. Board
was honored with the UNC Volleyball Mighty Ram Award as a junior
and earned the North Carolina Volleyball Award for excellence in
both her junior and senior seasons. As a senior, Board became only
the second vollleyball player ever to receive the 3 Dimensional
Leader Award through the Carolina Leadership Academy. This award is
given to captains and team leaders based upon one's ability to be
an effective leader both vocally and by example. Board played for
the Triangle Volleyball Club as a high school athlete, then coached
the team from January 2005 through the summer of 2009. In 2007, the
club team established The Board Award, named in Board's honor,
which "annually recognizes a student-athlete who embodies
Triangle's core values and demonstrates those values through
outstanding love and devotion to the Club, its membership and staff
in much the same was that Ashley has done for the past six years."
"I am very excited to have Ashley join our program," said Furman
head coach Michelle Young upon hiring Board. "Ashley is a great
person, as well as a great player. I am excited to have someone
that can relate to our players as they experience the demands here
at Furman, both athletically and academically. Her passion for the
players and their success is tremendous, and we are lucky to have
her." Board, a 2008 graduate of North Carolina, has a degree in
exercise and sport science and sports administration with a minor
in philosophy. A native of Raleigh, NC, Board completed her prep
career at Ravenscroft School in 2004.
